Seven-year-old Emma Calver poses next to her eight-feet tall snowman. The snowman, who is wearing a Gillingham FC scarf, was built with the help of dad Wayne on Wednesday night.

Mr Jingle (right) gets a snowball in the face as Stryder looks on. Christine Normington and son Daniel, from Broadstairs in Kent, laboured for hours on Wednesday to get this shot.

The downside of winter weather is shown by Andrew Mardon's street in Headingley, Leeds, on Wednesday where cars were snowed in and roads snowed over.

At the other end of the country cars were still struggling through the snow, as Robert Sproats' picture of Chatham in Kent shows.

But Nathan Jeffery found the upside in snow on Tuesday in Ashford, Kent. Many of the county's schools have been closed due to the extreme weather.

Jason Metcalfe watched as people braved the beachfront in Broadstairs - where the snow met the sea.

Jackie Stirling captured this picture of sun rays breaking through the clouds as she drove home to Glenrothes, Fife.

Paul Hewlett, from Dover, Kent, says a thaw set in on Tuesday, only to be followed by heavy snow all day on Wednesday.